FORGOTTEN MUSIC BY GREAT COMPOSERS AND GREAT MUSIC BY FORGOTTEN COMPOSERS

It's been over thirty years since the silver disc made its debut, and many classical collectors are now searching beyond the standard repertoire for more esoteric fare. There's an abundance of the latter to be found in scores that down through the years have for one reason or another become lost to the general public. These have been seed for a bumper crop of discs whose content could be characterized as forgotten music by great composers and/or great music by forgotten composers. Some of them inevitably fall into the one-spin-trash-bin category. However, others could be described as "Classical Releases Of Current Key Significance," or "CROCKS", where "key significance" is meant to indicate hard to find music of exceptional intrinsic value.

The Classical Lost & Found Web Site (CLOFO.com) and its associated CROCKS Newsletters tell adventurous listeners about these recordings. They're rated as either "RECOMMENDED", "SUGGESTED", "QUESTIONABLE" or "AUDIOPHILE", with the last being discs in the first category that should also appeal to audiophiles because of their superior sound. The commentary is based solely on personal listening experiences.

If you or any of your friends would like to be notified whenever there's a new CROCKS Newsletter on CLOFO.com, just click the e-mail address below and let us know.

Looking for a particular composer, work, soloist, performing group, type of instrument, or for that matter any classical music related subject that lends itself to a key word or short phrase? Try entering it in the blank box below and clicking the "Search" button. The CLOFO search engine (courtesy of Google) is extremely powerful and bound to find it, providing it's on at least one CLOFO Web page.

If you've found a CROCKS Newsletter album you think you'd like, you can also see where we suggest getting it. For 2007 newsletters and before, simply click on the album picture or title; or for 2008 and later, one of the Web site retail outlets given in the "AVAILABILITY" table under the commentary.